PlanTracer technology meets WiseImage's raster and CAD functionality
Advanced tools for working with legacy drawings
Create floor plan models directly from both 2D-CAD drawings and raster images
Improved turnaround of floor plan data extraction
Advanced drawing and editing tools
API for access to internal data structures of floor plan models
Solution for Facilities Management

WiseImage FM is an application based on the unique CSoft raster-vector technology. It is designed to be a graphical front-end to Facilities Management solutions. WiseImage FM represents floor plans as parametric models consisting of intelligent objects.

The integration of existing drawing archives with computer-aided Facilities Management systems requires an efficient technology to convert and capture FM-related data from the original building floor plans. The need to keep FM data up-to-date through a simple process has motivated the WiseImage FM development. WiseImage FM focuses on efficiency and usability. WiseImage FM delivers advanced tools for floor plan drawing and editing. Its unique tool set also includes automatic and semi-automatic conversion of data such as 2D or raster floor and building-plan drawings into intelligent models. WiseImage FM will recognize a floor plan, extract FM data and create "Intelligent Objects" from vectors or from raster drawings. These objects will contain all the necessary data for your FM solution. WiseImage FM provides an open programming interface for easy integration with Facilities Management applications, databases and MS Office. A Facilities Management solution can access all objects on the floor plan models using WiseImage FM.

One step from scanner to BIM
WiseImage FM has native support for most wide-format scanners. Efficient post-processing is necessary for scanned drawings and WiseImage FM does it well. It is possible to crop images, change their resolution and scale, adjust brightness, contrast, deskew and calibrate them. WiseImage FM provides interactive raster to vector conversion all kind of images.

On top of them all is the automatic conversion of scanned drawing to parametric floor plan model. Using WiseImage FM to convert legacy drawings to models is the shortest way from paper to IFC models and BIM systems. Imagine your requirements for the future and gauge the scope of work involved to enable your existing building mass in FM system. With WiseImage FM the time-consuming and mundane task of converting legacy data to your future needs are automated.

Floor plan creation
WiseImage FM provides tools for fast and easy floor plan drawing - automatic and semi-automatic room definition and dimensioning as well as automatic floor space calculation. WiseImage FM can accurately reproduce traditional floor plans. It takes into account on-site measurements and uses them in a parametric model to speed up floor plan drawing as well as the dimensioning and floor space calculation. Three modes of floor plan creation are available:

Automatic conversion of original floor plans made by measuring rooms and converting them to a parametric model (parametric mode)
Traditional floor plan drawing using parametric library objects (library mode)
Floor plan creation from measured outer and inner contours of the building (contour mode).
All modes allow for the use of precise drawing tools: object snapping, relative object insertion, dynamic dimensioning, and more.

Rooms and Object (Templates) Library
The basic construction element in a parametric floor plan model is the Room object. WiseImage FM provides commands for semi-automatic room, apartment and floor plan creation. Once all rooms are defined - WiseImage FM can perform automatic floor space calculations. To finalize a floor plan drawing it is necessary to add dimensions to it. WiseImage FM can do this in an automatic or semi-automatic mode. If there is any modification in room dimensions, WiseImage FM automatically recalculates affected floor spaces.

Besides rooms there are other objects in floor space parametric models, such Walls, Windows, Doors, Columns, and Stairs etc. They are stored in the Object (Templates) Library. Users can manage the Template Library contents. A library can be loaded/unloaded at will. Library objects can be created from AutoCAD blocks or sets of entities. It is also possible to create groups from more than one library object and to assemble floor plans from sets of groups.

Any object can be equipped with additional attributes. The list of attributes is stored in an editable external XML-file.

Creating exact contours of the room
In most cases - FM user creates contours for rooms according to the results from measurements. The measurements represented by a set of interconnected data values. WiseImage FM provides engineers with a highly efficient drawing technology. The method allows for the creation of contours dividing them into sets of elementary geometrical figures such as triangle, rectangle, arc, etc. This feature provides users with the ability to obtain exact values from floor spaces and the corresponding formulas to calculate the floor spaces. Furthermore, users, having changed any dimensions in a room, will automatically obtain the following: the reconstructed room, its new floor space value, and a new formula. Even more, WiseImage FM provides the tool for creating the formula for any existing contours. Actually the process of formula creating is the same as the procedure for room's measurement. The main difference from drawing with exact contours is that the users do not draw the contours but rather inputs virtual figures and dimensions.

Floor plan recognition and conversion
To achieve maximum efficiency; WiseImage FM has automatic and semi-automatic conversion of floor and building-plans into intelligent models. WiseImage FM recognizes and converts these plans into parametric models from:

Raster (bi-tonal) images (Raster editing and image enhancement tools are available) or from
2D non-parametric drawings (made in AutoCAD or from other CAD software. WiseImage FM also converts results of raster-to-vector conversion)
Special tools for Facility Management engineers
Unlike general-purpose CAD software WiseImage FM is focused on delivering the most convenient drawing tools for re-drawing and modifying existing floor plans. That is why WiseImage FM has a large set of floor plan correction and editing tools. Rearranging floor spaces are simple with special 'Walls correction' set of commands, such as adjoining, trimming, extending, line-to-curved wall conversion, etc. Also modifications can be done directly on the parametric floor plan models by changing room dimensions. WiseImage FM provides automatic dimensioning of all selected rooms without duplicating any dimensions. User specifies some parameters and WiseImage FM creates a set of required dimensions without duplication.

Classifiers and data exchange
WiseImage FM has an application-independent data structure that allows users to maintain proper facility standards. The multi-level structure of classifiers provides users with any number of possibilities to create a proprietary system of definitions and relations between objects (Apartment consist of Living Rooms, Kitchen, Balcony, etc.).

Floor plan model should be available to external application to integrate WiseImage FM with Facilities Management solution. It can be done with built in COM API. WiseImage FM can also import data from an external database and use this to change the plan or model (e.g. the floor space). WiseImage FM can easily create graphics for reports by exchanging the requested data using WMF objects. Another way for data exchange is to use XML-files.